High End Computing Consortium for Wave Structure Interaction HEC WSI
Lead Research Organisation:
Plymouth University
Department Name: Sch of Eng, Comp and Math (SECaM)
Abstract
The High End Computing Consortium for Wave Structure Interaction (HEC WSI) is a new and emerging communities consortium that represents the established community of researchers in wave structure interaction that are working together through the support of the CCP-WSI+ (Collaborative Computational Project on Wave Structure Interaction plus). This brings together a community of researchers in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and computational structure mechanics (CSM) who are developing and applying fully coupled wave structure interaction numerical modelling tools suitable for the latest challenges in coastal and ocean engineering, and other wave structure interaction (WSI) free surface flow problems, such as sloshing in containers and liquid fuels, and would benefit from access to significant HPC resource. The consortium addresses underpinning research applicable to Net Zero and Decarbonisation solutions aligned with UK Government strategy and will enable new science and innovation unlocked by access to high-end computing capabilities for solving WSI problems in these areas.
The consortium will make significant technical developments of software codes to enhance their suitability for high-end computing. These will include optimising key codes used within the WSI community to achieve better scalability of the multi-phase solvers, developing tools to allow interoperability between the solvers for fluids and solid mechanics, developing coupling strategies between wave, wind, rigid body and hydro elastics models for different applications in costal/ocean engineering and related areas, and also developing AI/ML surrogate modelling tools informed by high fidelity WSI simulations utilising the aforementioned developments.
The consortium will maximise the involvement of the whole community working on coastal and ocean engineering and related areas. These will include providing the opportunity for researchers in the community to port and benchmark their own codes and to use the software codes supported by the consortium on the HPC resource. The HEC WSI will also provide opportunities for early career researchers to learn and become proficient in using HPC resources and will serve as a forum to communicate research and share HEC WSI expertise within the WSI community, helping to promote the highest quality engineering research and provide leadership in developing strategic agendas for the WSI community.
The success of this consortium will be ensured by supporting the existing wide CCP-WSI+ network of over 200 researchers, spanning academia and industry in 5 continents working on WSI, ORE (offshore renewable energy) and other relevant applications and sectors. The community will be strengthened and consolidated through this project. The HEC WSI will expand the volume of users, provide support for the WSI and wider community and significantly enhance WSI codes for them to be used on HPCs and most advanced high-end computing systems by the end of this project.
The consortium will make significant technical developments of software codes to enhance their suitability for high-end computing. These will include optimising key codes used within the WSI community to achieve better scalability of the multi-phase solvers, developing tools to allow interoperability between the solvers for fluids and solid mechanics, developing coupling strategies between wave, wind, rigid body and hydro elastics models for different applications in costal/ocean engineering and related areas, and also developing AI/ML surrogate modelling tools informed by high fidelity WSI simulations utilising the aforementioned developments.
The consortium will maximise the involvement of the whole community working on coastal and ocean engineering and related areas. These will include providing the opportunity for researchers in the community to port and benchmark their own codes and to use the software codes supported by the consortium on the HPC resource. The HEC WSI will also provide opportunities for early career researchers to learn and become proficient in using HPC resources and will serve as a forum to communicate research and share HEC WSI expertise within the WSI community, helping to promote the highest quality engineering research and provide leadership in developing strategic agendas for the WSI community.
The success of this consortium will be ensured by supporting the existing wide CCP-WSI+ network of over 200 researchers, spanning academia and industry in 5 continents working on WSI, ORE (offshore renewable energy) and other relevant applications and sectors. The community will be strengthened and consolidated through this project. The HEC WSI will expand the volume of users, provide support for the WSI and wider community and significantly enhance WSI codes for them to be used on HPCs and most advanced high-end computing systems by the end of this project.
Organisations
Publications
Zhang N
(2023)
A CNN-supported Lagrangian ISPH model for free surface flow
in Applied Ocean Research
| Title | CCP/HEC-WSI Catalogue |
| Description | The CCP/HEC-WSI catalogue (https://www.ccp-wsi.ac.uk/catalogue/) aims to be a high-impact output for the wave structure interaction community within the UK and even internationally. It has the potential to be a rich resource of research objects, connecting projects, test cases, software and solvers, publications, events and more by common themes. The search capability and side filter bars of the catalogue have been implemented and will enhance discoverability, identifying gaps in the community as well as reducing repetition. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Catalogue users will be able to find and compare codes, attend events they might not have known about, form new and productive collaborations and increase the visibility of their work resulting in higher impact. All this will help researchers and industry partners alike to achieve more in the field of Wave Structure Interaction. |
| URL | https://ccp-wsi.ac.uk/catalogue/ |
| Description | 10th PRIMaRE Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The annual PRIMaRE conference provides a forum for exchanging the latest research & development and fostering collaborations in Marine Renewable Energy. The event provided an excellent forum to foster collaboration between industry and academia, which is essential to ensure that the marine energy sector can achieve its full commercial potential, maximising job creation and export opportunities, whilst allowing the UK to remain a global leader in the associated engineering and policy expertise. The event was attended by 100+ participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.primare.org/events-news/primare-conference/10th-primare-conference/ |
| Description | 1st FOWT Comparative Study - ISOPE 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The 1st FOWT Comparative Study (part of the CCP-WSI Flagship project EP/T004150/1) was delivered at ISOPE 2023 conference in Ottawa, Canada (19-23 June 2023), with 17 contributions to the technical conference programme and the conference proceedings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | 1st UKRI STFC National Labs Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | "The Computational Science Centre for Research Communities (CoSeC) and Marine Energy Applications", Stephen Longshaw, The 1st UKRI STFC National Labs Conference, September 2023. It is a presentation on the CCP-WSI+ related works at the UKRI STFC National Labs Research Conference that attracted 150 attendees both in-person and virtually. The attendees are STFC staff from sites across the whole UK. This presentation made awareness of the CCP-WSI-related works to STFC staff from various disciplines and has the potential to foster further cross-discipline collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Archer2 Celebration of Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | "Introduction to the HEC-WSI", presented by Raynold (Yiyun) Tan, ARCHER2 Celebration of Science, Edinburgh, March 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 4 - ISOPE 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 4 was run in conjunction with the ISOPE 2023 conference in Ottawa, Canada (19-23 June 2023). There were 8 expressions of interest, 3 contributions were made to the technical program and 2 papers are published in the conference proceedings. The test cases associated with Blind Test will be used to form the CCP-WSI Comparative Study 2 which will be published in a special issue of the International Marine Energy Journal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | CCP-WSI Focus Group Workshop 4 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The latest CCP-WSI Industry Engagement event held in conjunction with the 10th PRIMaRE Conference at the University of Bath, UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.primare.org/events-news/primare-conference/10th-primare-conference/ |
| Description | CCP-WSI Training Event - OpenFOAM Parallel Performance Engineering Training Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | It is a training workshop run at Daresbury Laboratory by CoSeC and offering a 2-day course aimed to provide an overview of programming new OpenFOAM capability and using it on parallel computing architectures. This hybrid workshop workshop attracted 30 in-person attendees from across the UK and 20 online UK/international audiences. Most of the attendees are PhD students and early career researchers. The course was delivered using Cloud training provision provided by the Scientific Computing Department with all course material available indefinitely on GitHub. We received numerous requests from individuals expressing interest in participating in this workshop. The level of interest indicates a strong engagement with the event's content and highlights the impact it created on the community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ccp-wsi.ac.uk/events/training/openfoam-parallel-performance-engineering-workshop/ |
| Description | CoSeC Annual Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | "Multiscale Universal Interface for Heterogeneous High-Performance Computing Systems", Omar Mahfoze, CoSeC annual conference and Computing Insight UK 2023, Manchester, 6th-8th December 2023. It is a presentation by CCP-WSI CoSeC staff at the annual CoSeC conference and Computing Insight UK 2023, which attracted about 75 academic researchers from various CoSeC-supported disciplines. The talk highlighted the excellence of CCP-WSI outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | FOWT code comparative study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A code comparative study for modelling hydrodynamics of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWT) has been organised at the ISOPE 2023 conference. The workshop received over 20 submissions from 17 research institutes from the UK, Europe and China. A number of engineering design coded and high-fidelity CFD codes have been used in the study and currently a scientific paper evaluating the submitted data against experimental data produced from the project is being prepared. The outcome would provide guidance on selecting an appropriate numerical code for modelling hydrodynamic loads on FOWTs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | HEC-WSI Annual Workshop 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | an online event dedicated to the High-End Computing Consortium for Wave-Structure Interaction (HEC-WSI) community. This workshop is designed to heighten awareness of the HEC-WSI and its role in advancing WSI research on new and emerging HPC resources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://hec-wsi.ac.uk/events/annual_workshop_2023/ |
| Description | HEC-WSI Project Access call - Autumn 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Autumn 2023 call for Archer2 computational resource for 6-month projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://hec-wsi.ac.uk/access-resource/access-modes/ |
| Description | HEC-WSI Project Access call - Summer 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Summer 2023 call for Archer2 computational resource for 6-month projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://hec-wsi.ac.uk/access-resource/access-modes/ |
| Description | HEC-WSI Project Access call - Winter 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Winter 2023 call for Archer2 computational resource for 6-month projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://hec-wsi.ac.uk/access-resource/access-modes/ |
| Description | International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | "CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 4-Simulation of Focused Wave Interactions with a Submerged Flexible Membrane Using the ParaSiF Framework", Wendi Liu, International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference, Ottawa, 19th-23rd June 2023. This is a presentation to provide the latest results of the CCP-WSI project. About 25 international audiences from the ocean engineering field joined that session. There was a good mix of academic and industry audiences so as to raise awareness of the activities conducted by the CCP-WSI community and showcase the excellence of CCP-WSI-related outputs. Includes a contribution to the CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 4 and dissemination to international audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Meeting with STFC Library Group Leader |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "CCP-WSI Resource Object Catalogue", Gemma Poulter, April, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory UK, Meeting with STFC Library Group Leader to encourage collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Mini-Symposium "Modelling and simulation of multiphase flows" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A mini-symposium organised at the 22nd IACM Computational Fluids Conference (CFC23) in Cannes, France entitled "Modelling and simulation of multiphase flows". The session was proposed and arranged in collaboration with the developers of the preCICE coupling library and the University of Exeter and provided a platform for a number of CoSeC staff to present their work: "Creating Partitioned Coupled Approaches using the Multiscale Universal Interface Coupling Library", presented by Omar Mahfoze; and "A Multiphase Fluid-Fluid and Fluid-Structure Coupling Framework based on preCICE for Marine Applications" present by Yiyun (Raynold) Tan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Moody/CCP-WSI Joint Workshop 1 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | an in-person immersive workshop on MoodyMarine, a state-of-the-art software tool for modelling dynamic moorings and performing station-keeping simulations. Led by the developers of the software, and host by the University of Plymouth this workshop aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of MoodyMarine and its vital role in hydrodynamics modelling. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ccp-wsi.ac.uk/events/code_developers_workshops/moody_joint_workshop_1/ |
| Description | SIG-SPH/CCP-WSI Joint Meeting 1 (Hybrid) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A joint meeting around the use of meshless methods for FSI problems was organised by the UK Fluids Network Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Special Interest Group and CCP-WSI. This SPH-SIG/CCP-WSI Joint Meeting brings together the SPH UK Fluids Network Special Interest Group and the CCP-WSI and HEC-WSI communities to discuss the latest advances in using meshless methods for fluid-structure interaction problems. Hosted by the University of Bristol, the event included introductions and information on the research communities, technical talks from leading experts in the field, networking and broader group discussions. It attracted 25 academic researchers who were interested in CCP-WSI as well as SPH from across the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ccp-wsi.ac.uk/events/code_developers_workshops/sph-sig_joint_meeting_1/ |
| Description | The 33rd International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference, Ottawa, Canada |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of University of Plymouth's contribution to the 1st FOWT comparative study, given by Dr Edward Ransley. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |